1) The
higher-end, designer ones began to look more space-age where one could barely
tell that it was a kitchen at all, and

2)
Home builders looking to appeal to the middle class began developing smaller,
less whitewashed kitchens that felt more 'homey'.

This
design would eventually become a mainstay in homes across America as the
kitchen became smaller and felt more like a comfortable 'command center' than
its own room.

2. Fragment from "The Evolution and Dissolution of the Soviet Kitchen" by Nadien Astrakhan.

During the 1950s, Nikita
Khrushchev’s goal was to return to the concept of single-family apartments. Even
if they were cheaply built with no frills, they gave Soviets privacy and peace
of mind. There were many in the government who disagreed with this idea,
claiming that when families lived alone, socialism was replaced with bourgeois
consumerism. Magazines of the time wrote to women and teenage girls, reminding
them that even in a time of demand for consumer goods, they should still be
cautious and live a modest lifestyle.

3. Fragment from the speech where President Harry Truman began outlining the Truman Doctrine.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United
States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed
minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples
to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be
primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic
stability and orderly political processes. The world is not static, and the status
quo is not sacred. But we cannot allow changes in the status quo in violation
of the Charter of the United Nations by such methods as coercion, or by such
subterfuges as political infiltration.

4. Fragment from the speech where Premier Leonid Brezhnev began outlining the Brezhnev Doctrine.

Each Communist party cannot but take into account such
a decisive fact of our time as the struggle between two opposing social
systems: capitalism and socialism. This is an objective struggle, a fact not
depending on the will of the people, and stipulated by the world's being split
into two opposite social systems. Lenin said: "Each man must choose
between joining our side or the other side. Any attempt to avoid taking sides
in this issue must end in fiasco." It has got to be emphasized that when a
socialist country seems to adopt a "non­affiliated" stand, it retains
its national independence, in effect, precisely because of the might of the
socialist community, and above all the Soviet Union as a central force, which
also includes the might of its armed forces. The weakening of any of the links
in the world system of socialism directly affects all the socialist countries,
which cannot look indifferently upon this.

5. Promotional picture of American actress Doris Day at a typical kitchen in Malibu, California, in 1966.

6. Still from the 1979 Soviet film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears".

7. Czechoslovak stamp commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1948 coup d'etat that established the Czechoslovak People's Republic.